The player showed great maturity over the last month, even going into the tournament with a regular haircut. Tomorrow, we're staying at the hotel. We're going to finish happy.

"The club is making the effort, I have to respect the USA authorities in their process of visas but hopefully he joins us later because could be important to work with [Anthony] Martial and [Juan] Mata, which is the players we have in attack for start of the season".

"I want to see warriors on the field guys", Pogba told his team-mates in a scene from a documentary aired by TF1 . Soliders. We're going to kill them today, these Argentines.

France were able to find their own luck in the match, as a first ever World Cup final own goal was scored by Mandžukić as well as a controversial VAR decision, which awarded France a penalty. We have to get through this to do that.

On the BBC, Rio Ferdinand said: "Pogba was enormous, especially in the second half when the pressure was on".